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  • Crimean War: key to the painting of the reception of "Crimean Heroes" by Queen Victoria. Coloured lithograph after J. Gilbert.
  • Line up of five actors as "rough" popular heroes. Colour woodcut by Kuniaki, 1862.
  • Line up of five actors as "rough" popular heroes. Colour woodcut by Kuniaki, 1862.
  • Medical heroes of the army and navy : he organized the first field hospitals.
  • Line up of five actors as "rough" popular heroes. Colour woodcut by Kuniaki, 1862.
  • Line up of five actors as "rough" popular heroes. Colour woodcut by Kuniaki, 1862.
  • Medical heroes of the army and navy : he organized the first field hospitals.
  • European royals and martial heroes marvel at the sight of the defeated Napoleon Bonaparte standing in a glass bottle in their midst. Coloured etching.
  • Three heroic scenes depicting military heroes and leaders from the sixteenth century, including Oda Nohinaga (third from the right in the central panel). Colour woodcut by Kuniri (?), 1883.
  • Surgeon Hua T'o operating upon the war hero Juan Kung,
  • Death astride his horse is the hero of the battlefield. Etching.
  • Leander swimming the Hellespont towards Hero's light, with Eros guiding him. Engraving.
  • A steam-powered spinning disc known as the aeolipile, or Hero's engine. Gouache.
  • An actor as a Chinese hero wringing out his sleeve. Colour woodcut by Hokkei.
  • The face of a hero immediately before death. Drawing, c. 1789, after A. Schluter.
  • The face of a hero immediately before death. Drawing, c. 1789, after A. Schluter.
  • A hero holding a banner aloft before a western cannon. Colour woodcut by Yoshitoshi, 1875.
  • An actor as a princely hero by moonlight. Colour woodcut by Kuniharu, early 1860s.
  • Leander and Hero; Iole and Hercules; Pan and Syrinx. Etching by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.
  • Actor as the popular hero Shirai Gompachi under an umbrella. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, ca. 1860.
  • An actor as a hero who grapples with two demons. Colour woodcut by Yoshitaki, early 1860s.
  • An actor as a hero who emerges from a well. Colour woodcut by Yoshitaki, early 1860s.
  • An actor as a hero with his gut torn open. Colour woodcut by Kunikazu, early 1860s.
  • In the story of the good & bad bacteria, here's one little hero : Yakult / [Yakult UK Ltd.].
  • In the story of the good & bad bacteria, here's one little hero : Yakult / [Yakult UK Ltd.].
  • Actor Kataoka Nizaemon as the popular hero Umeno Ichirōbei, revealing his tattooed shoulder. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1859.
  • For two kinds of cough, two kinds of treatment Piriex and Ethnine : "The Parting of Hero and Leander".
  • For two kinds of cough, two kinds of treatment Piriex and Ethnine : "The Parting of Hero and Leander".
  • [Postcard sized card inviting nominations for the British Red Cross Society annual Humanitarian Citizen Awards, "Do you know a local hero?"].
  • A Persian hero (Iskandar?) on horseback, shoots an arrow at the simurgh (phoenix). Gouache painting by a Persian artist, ca. 1750(?).